Title III, SEC. 3131. CONTRACTS FOR ENSURING ACCESS TO CENTERS. (a) Contracts With Health Plans. Regional and corporate health alliances under this Act shall ensure that, in accordance with subsection (b), the health plans of the alliances enter into sufficient contracts with eligible centers to ensure that enrollees in regional or corporate alliance health plans, as appropriate, receive the specialized treatment expertise of such centers, subject to such exceptions as the Secretary may provide. (b) Utilization of Specialized Treatment Expertise of Centers. Contracts under subsection (a) between eligible centers and health plans are in accordance with this subsection if the contracts provide that, with respect to health conditions within the specialized treatment expertise of the centers, health plans will refer medical cases involving such conditions to the centers. (c) Specialized Treatment Expertise. For purposes of this subtitle, the term ``specialized treatment expertise'', with respect to treatment of a health condition by an academic health center, means expertise in treating rare diseases, treating unusually severe conditions, and providing other specialized health care.